शूर्प

Sanskrit

Etymology

From शूर्प् (śūrp)

Noun

शूर्प • (śūrpa) n

  1. a winnowing basket or fan (i.e. a kind of wicker receptacle which, when shaken about, serves as a fan for winnowing corn).

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1086
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